The Bogosity Podcast

News of the Bogus: 0:51 – Standardized Model for Warrant Canaries https://github.com/canarytail/standard 5:00 – Red Hat urges U.S. Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-urges-us-supreme-court-support-unrestricted-use-software-interfaces 9:15 – NSA and Github ‘rickrolled’ using Windows CryptoAPI bug https://nakedsec...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2019 Were Bogus https://torrentfreak.com/all-dmca-notices-filed-against-torrentfreak-in-2019-were-bogus-191231/ 4:48 – Mountain View’s controversial head tax, meant to alleviate Google’s impact on traffic and social services, now in effect https://abc7news.com/politics/controversial-head-tax-goes-into-...

0:22 – SESTA/FOSTA 1:31 – Cryptocurrency 4:33 – Cybersecurity 5:55 – Repeat Offenders 8:04 – Julian Assange 9:14 – Gun Control 11:45 – Miscellaneous News Items 14:54 – Silver Cluon Winners 15:29 – James Comey (nominated by Dallas Wildman) https://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php/topic,3251.msg31907/topicseen.html 16:13 – Idiot of the Year:...

News of the Bogus: 1:05 – Twitter now lets you enable 2FA without asking for your phone number https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/22/20977436/twitter-2fa-phone-number-authentication-app-security-key 4:36 – Fifth Circuit Takes Up Voting Rights for Mississippi Felons https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-takes-up-voting-rights-for-mississippi-felons/ 9:05 – Cops Are Running Ri...

News of the Bogus: 1:11 – The Swedish case against Assange was always political https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-swedish-case-against-assange-was-always-political-20191120-p53cgs.html 5:30 – Iran petrol protests: ‘100 leaders’ arrested in crackdown https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50520634 8:53 – Federal Judge Issues Historic Opinion for Digital Privacy a...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Supreme Court Allows Sandy Hook Families’ Case Against Remington Arms To Proceed https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/778487920/supreme-court-allows-sandy-hook-families-case-against-remington-to-proceed Remington Arms Co. v. Soto https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/remington-arms-co-v-soto/ 9:05 – Copyright Professors Back ISP Charter to Avoid Dangerou...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Is A YouTube COPPAcalypse Coming? FTC Rules Could Start Demonetizing Creators In 2020 https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/11/05/youtube-coppa-adpocalypse-ftc-rules-demonetizing-child-directed/ 6:37 – CEO Of Security Company Behind Unorthodox Penetration Tests Wants To Know Why His Employees Are Still Being Criminally Charged https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence Over Free File Program https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program#169990 4:47 – Facebook Sues Israeli NSO Spyware Firm For Hacking WhatsApp Users https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/whatsapp-nso-group-malware.html Exclusive:...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – South Carolina Judge Says State’s Asset Forfeiture Programs Are Unconstitutional https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191021/19081243236/south-carolina-judge-says-states-asset-forfeiture-programs-are-unconstitutional.shtml 5:55 – “Everybody Is Freaking Out”: Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law https://www.hollywoodre...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-plans-for-online-pornography-age-verification-system 3:58 – Without encryption we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground | Edward Snowden https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australi...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Court Ruling Shows How FBI Abused NSA Mass Surveillance https://theintercept.com/2019/10/10/fbi-nsa-mass-surveillance-abuse/ 4:30 – How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/magazine/ice-surveillance-deportation.html 8:20 – Attorney Who Sued Grindr Responds Extremely Poorly To The Supreme Court’s Rejection...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Julian Assange ‘subjected to every kind of torment’ in Belmarsh prison as he awaits extradition https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/julian-assange-latest-extradition-hearing-belmarsh-prison-father-john-shipton-award-un-a9124586.html Spanish security firm spied on Julian Assange for CIA — report https://www.dw.com/en/spanish-security-firm-spied-on-julian-...

News of the Bogus: 1:04 – Encrypted messaging is becoming more popular, and child advocates are worried https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/9/13/20863489/encryption-stanford-conference-facebook-ncmec-ghq 4:35 – Russian Spies ‘Breached FBI Encrypted Communications’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/09/18/russian-spies-breach-fbi-encrypted-communications-no-backdoor-needed...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Bitcoin: Elliptic raises $23 million to fight cryptocurrency crime https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/03/bitcoin-elliptic-raises-23-million-usd-to-fight-cryptocurrency-crime.html 3:40 – UPBit delisting a bunch of cryptos https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/d1oq0v/upbit_delisting_a_bunch_of_cryptos/ 8:37 – Fraudsters deepfake CEO’s voice to t...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Australian who says he invented bitcoin ordered to hand over up to $5bn https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/28/australian-who-says-he-invented-bitcoin-ordered-to-hand-over-up-to-5bn 5:23 – Federal Court Says The DHS’s Terrorist Watchlist Unconstitutionally Deprives Travelers Of Their Rights https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190905/123318429...

THE News of the Bogus: 0:58 – Protecting our Users in Kazakhstan | Mozilla Security Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/08/21/protecting-our-users-in-kazakhstan/ Google Online Security Blog: Protecting Chrome users in Kazakhstan https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/protecting-chrome-users-in-kazakhstan.html 4:30 – Jeffrey Epstein Is Dead Because His Jailers Neglected Him. He...

Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 1:01 – Kim Dotcom Set to Mobilize Former Megaupload Users Against Joe Biden https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-set-to-mobilize-former-megaupload-users-against-joe-biden-190812/ 5:45 – GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/12/gdpr-privacy-can-be-defeated-using-right-of-access-reques...

Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 1:07 – Court rules for Roger Ver in Craig Wright’s Satoshi defamation lawsuit https://cryptoslate.com/court-roger-ver-craig-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-defamation-lawsuit/ 6:05 – Gun Owners of America: Guns are being used to save lives every day https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/05/gun-owners-america-guns-save-lives-every-day-editoria...

Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 1:03 – Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero,’ sentenced to supervised release https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/26/marcus-hutchins-sentenced-kronos/ 8:24 – FDIC Admits to Discriminating Against Gun Stores, Shows Advantage of Decentralized Money https://dashnews.org/fdic-admits-to-discriminating-against-gun-stores-shows-advanta...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-announces-it-will-cut-hours-to-pay-staffers-15-minimum-wage-prompting-mockery 5:00 – Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-n...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Bitcoin And Crypto Suddenly Branded A ‘National Security Issue’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/07/16/bitcoin-and-crypto-suddenly-branded-a-national-security-issue/ 4:28 – Gab, Mastodon And The Challenges Of Content Moderation On A More Distributed Social Network https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190715/00244442587/gab-mastodon-c...

News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Without Any Warrants, CBP Searched My Devices at the Airport https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/ 6:00 – Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: The Case Of YouTube And ‘Hacking’ Videos https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190705/17085042522/content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-case-youtube-hacking-videos.shtml 1...

News of the Bogus: 0:49 – Florida court rules Craig Wright committed fraud, may be facing prison time https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/10520/florida-court-rules-craig-wright-committed-fraud-may-be-facing-prison-time.html 3:23 – Swedish Man Convicted for ‘Hate’ Comments He Did Not Write https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/28/swedish-man-convicted-hate-comments-he-did-no...

News of the Bogus: 0:55 – Russia Says it Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs https://torrentfreak.com/russia-says-it-will-soon-begin-blocking-major-vpns/ 4:35 – Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Cyber Actors Exploit ‘Secure’ Websites In Phishing Campaigns https://www.ic3.gov/media/2019/190610.aspx 8:20 – Court: Arresting A Driver For Shouting ‘F— You&#8217...

News of the Bogus: 0:49 – Gun violence has sharply declined in California’s Bay Area. What happened? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/jun/03/gun-violence-bay-area-drop-30-percent-why-investigation 4:30 – California lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson on rent control https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/446424-california-lawmakers-havent-learned-thei...